Decree On The Arrest Of The Leaders Of The Civil War Against The Revolution

Written 28 November, 1917 · First published 29 November, 1917, in Pravda No. 23 (evening edition) and Izvestia, No. 239 29 November, 1917. Published according to the manuscript. · page 351

Members of leading bodies of the Cadet Party, as a party of enemies of the people, are liable to arrest and trial by revolutionary tribunal.

Local Soviets are ordered to exercise special surveillance over the Cadet Party in view of its connection with the Kornilov-Kaledin civil war against the revolution.

This decree enters into effect from the time of signing.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin),
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissar

Petrograd, November 28, 1917, 10.30 p.m.